Tobacco

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I have never (and I doubt you have ever) seen anyone drink a beer on the sideline of any sporting event.

Are we in different worlds?

[w_sohl]

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

Are we in different worlds?

He means HS sportting event.

And if I smelled alcohol on a coaches breath I would tell the head coach that that assistant has to go.

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by w_sohl

He means HS sportting event.

Even so. But then, I lived thru the era of the 18 YO drinking age and when beer companies advertised on our clothes. We do still drink after youth games, the cooler being ready on the sideline.

[w_sohl]

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

Even so. But then, I lived thru the era of the 18 YO drinking age and when beer companies advertised on our clothes. We do still drink after youth games, the cooler being ready on the sideline.

Some of us even lived through an era where black people had to sit in the back of the bus, but hey, if we used to do it, it must not be all that bad.

Yeah, I did it, but we can't always go on saying well when I was younger or during my era. Times change, research proves statistics. If you want your kids to see an adult that they look up to with smokeless tobacco, by all means show your kids. I don't.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

Statistics would show more injuries per participant for football than for chewing tobacco; I don't think it'd even be close, in fact. And yeah, even more for cheerleading. Sports are linked to injuries like drugs are; if you wanted to compare them for safety stats, and think that is the reason they're outlawed, then you'd wind up wondering!

OK, I Googled, taking the 1st appropriate hits that came up for terms I put in. 2001-6 in the USA...

football (touch & tackle combined): 21.92 injuries per 1,000 participants per year
moist snuff + chewing tobacco: 30.4 excess mouth or throat cancers per 100,000 users/yr.

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That is all wonderful, but what about smoking tobacco? After all all of it is outlawed or illegal on a school property. And if it is used on campus it is illegal in many places period by the law, not by officials.

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

Are we in different worlds?

Yes, if you think on this site I am talking about anything other then high school sports. And even in college sports it is not allowed to have tobacco on campus or in a building.

But hey, keep hope alive if you think the rule is going to change anytime soon. And at the NCAA level it is also been outlawed to use such things by players and participants. And I have been to enough college sporting events for college or NCAA and they will not even sell alcohol in the building. Been to the Big Ten Tournament in both the Indianapolis and Chicago and they would not sell alcohol in the confines of the United Center and Conseco Fieldhouse. I went to the Final Four in Atlanta this spring and they did not sell alcohol there either. These things are not accepted other then pro sports and they cannot even use those things in many pro sports.

Peace

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

That is all wonderful, but what about smoking tobacco?

Hey, what about smoking crack? The discussion was about chewing, wasn't it?

But hey, keep hope alive if you think the rule is going to change anytime soon.

Probably they'll allow pot smoking first, which probably won't be long.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

Hey, what about smoking crack? The discussion was about chewing, wasn't it?

Probably they'll allow pot smoking first, which probably won't be long.

Well considering that smoking crack or smoking chronic very likely would get you arrested, I think we can treat that a little differently. Just a guess on my part.

Next thing you are going to say, "Well they do not have rules against having sex on the sideline either...."

Peace